December has arrived very quickly and it will soon be holiday time. đ However, we donât stop. We continue to learn and do our best every day. Â December is an extremely busy time of year in Primary schools with pantos, parties, Â rehearsals for school pantos and church services. Â This means our timetable is often changed at a moments notice and we have to be very flexible. Our apologies in advance.
We have already noticed that the children are becoming more tired as we head towards the holidays and we take this into account in the planning of our lessons. Â Itâs dark outside, itâs cold and there are only so many sleeps till a certain someone arrives. Â The excitement will build.
âGood Afternoon! âsaid our visiting Firefighter, as he walked in the door. âGood Afternoon, Lottyâs Dad! â replied the children. Â Â We hadnât rehearsed this. The children were enthralled.
Mr Martin –  aka  âLottyâs Dadâ –  arrived to talk to us about being a firefighter and all the things he does.  It is a really dangerous job and we didnât envy him.  He told us about the importance of smoke alarms and about what to do if our house was on fire.
He then asked Mrs Arbuckle to demonstrate putting on the firefighters special clothes. Â The clothes were very hot to wear and were very heavy. Â Not very comfortable at all. Â We all got to try on part of the special clothes and we had so much fun. Â It looked chaotic, but we learned so much .
Thank you very much for a very memorable afternoon, Mr Martin and for taking the time to visit us.
Our new term is under way and we had to say goodbye to Mr Higgins teaching us gym. Â Now our teachers are teaching us gymnastics. Â We were learning to do long rolls, controlling our movements and forward rolls. Â We then added in a balance before and after our rolls. Â We were very impressed.
One of the lovely librarians from Clarkston Library visited us. Â She brought Book Bug bags with her full of goodies and read some of the books. Â The bags are great, with books, a whiteboard and pen , posters and information. Â The more we read books, the better thinkers, readers and writers we become.
When we go in to class in the morning, we order our lunch, choose a book from the book baskets and sit and read. Â It is called ERIC time. Â ( Everyone Reading In Class) Â It is important to know that we can read books other than our reading books. Â These books have been specially selected for us and include words we know. Â It is lovely to hear the children reading and seeing them pointing to words.
The scene was set and Katie didnât know!  Mrs Mo  ( Katieâs Mum) was our Mystery Reader today.  It was lovely to welcome a parent in to our class and share reading.  Mrs Mo read one of our favourite books, âThe Tiger Who Came To Teaâ by Judith Kerr.  Thank you for taking time out of your busy day, Mrs Mo.
If you would like to be our Mystery Reader on a Friday at 12, put a note in the Diary and we will be in touch. December is full, but we can take bookings for January and February. …. but remember to keep it under your hat.  đ€
The teachers get involved in play too. We donât direct it, we just join in and let the children lead us.  We donât often get photos of this as we are  busy playing.  However, the iPad was quickly brought out to capture Mrs Hamilton being measured.  Was the âwormâ longer than her and several children?  One child made the â wormâ and other children asked the question and wanted to discover the answer.
When we play in 1.4, we use our imaginations. Â The conversations between the children are amazing. Â We could never teach that. Â Sweep in Busters kennel was so funny ( to see his âexpressionâ said it all! ); one child being the âMystery Reader â was brilliant; the discussions on texture at the water beads was unbelievable. Â We donât ask the children to do these things. They are just learning through play.
We loved âSingâand decided that if we were animals,  we would have to dance too.  We split up into groups and decided which animals we would be and which dance we would do.  Some were chest beating gorillas; some were snapping crocodiles; some were ballroom dancing hippos ( they had a decidedly  Strictly influence and would have scored 7! ) and one group were tap dancing giraffes.  There were lots of giggles as they demonstrated their dances to the music.  One child sang âTotal Eclipse Of The Heartâ as they danced.  It made a change from their rendition of âLord of the Danceâ the previous week! đđ
Oh the excitement!  The big day had finally arrived! We had our snacks and juice in our pockets  and we were off on the bus to see âSingâ.
We had the whole cinema to ourselves and settled down in our seats. Â The film was really good and the music was great. Â ( Some people even sang some of the songs on the bus home. Â They know who they are. Â đ)
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